Bending Holy Light

The upstairs windows are washed, and the glass and crystal tchotchkes on the top of the sash and sill have been wiped off. Looking out, I notice the seventy-foot maple in the neighbor’s yard is tipped in dark red. Within a week, it will flash its fall color, a glowing dark-orange that will illuminate my room.
In front of the east window, hanging from the curtain rod just below the valance is a nylon string with clear multi-faceted prisms and hand-made beads. Dozens of vibrant rainbows are drifting across the butter-yellow walls in the gabled room

Margaret Rose lives an eremitic life, is a freelance writer with a Benedictine spirituality, a Certified Greenhouse Grower, Advanced Master Gardener, liturgical garden consultant, and workshop/retreat leader. She is the coordinator emeritus of the St. Francis Retreat Center Garden Society in DeWitt, Michigan. She has a master’s degree in communications.
She is the author of three books, and, in addition to writing at CatholicConspiracy.com, she is a regular columnist at CatholicMom.com and Aleteia.org.